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In 1982, under the leadership of Lajos Mocsai, the only 28-year-old coach, the Vasas women’s handball team won the European Champions Cup. The success 38 years ago was born on the night of May 9 in Budapest. Vasas has not won this series before or since. Amália Sterbinszky’s last match on Angyalföld’s team was memorable, but the intoxication after the BEK final soon subsided and the nonsense of Hungarian sports emerged.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, three teams dominated the European Cup for the Women’s Handball Championship. Soviet Spartak Kiev, Yugoslav Radnicski Belgrade and Vasas. At the time, this series of cups was really a playground for gangs from socialist countries. It is quite surprising that between 1966 and 1989 only Soviet, Yugoslav, East German and Hungarian winners were inaugurated in the women’s handball BEK.
In the 1980-81 season, Vasas was particularly unfortunate, as the Angels and Spartak Kiev team were tied in the first round. Any other set will be dragged along with the set led by János Csík, Vasas will probably advance. Spartak won the first match in Kiev, led by Igor Turchin, 19-14. These five objectives were considered a borderline case, many people thought that the Budapest rematch could be reduced. It was not possible, Vasas was only able to win 14-11, making it shocking, but the Hungarian team was knocked out of the BEK fights in the first round.
A year later, Vasas started in the most prestigious fights in the European Cup, but on the small bench there was no longer János Csík, but the very young Lajos Mocsai, only 28 years old, who took over the team during the season. Strip had previously worked as the federal captain of the women’s handball team at the time. At BEK, Vasas started on board 16. PUC Paris enjoyed an easy warm-up for both matches. The Sterbinszky family won 35-15 in Budapest and 31-15 in the French capital, placing them in the top eight. Luck has not yet escaped them because they had to play against Hellas Den Haag of the Netherlands in the quarterfinals. Vasas 40-20 won the first match in the Netherlands, and the Hungarian team won 29-15 in the Budapest rematch. Then came the semifinals of the fearsome Spartak against Kiev.
The Hungarian girls were heated by the desire to retaliate. In Kiev, they scored the same number of goals (20-15) in the rematch as the previous year, but the 22-15 success in the rematch meant that Vasas reached the final, where Yugoslav Radnicski Beograd was waiting for him. Success 22-15 was a great match for Mariann Gódorné Nagy, because the excellent player scored 10 goals for the Soviets. It was a world class performance at its best.
In the first match of the BEK final, the Yugoslav champion won 24-21, that is, by three goals. Everyone was very optimistic about the rematch. Vinko Kandija’s biggest star at the time was Svetlana Kitics. This player could have been chosen as the beauty queen of all tournaments at the time, but he was also struck by the fact that he could play handball mercilessly. A special curiosity of the second game of the BEK final was that Amália Sterbinszky said goodbye to the Angyalföld team at this meeting. who continued his career with IF Helsingör in Denmark the following season. The background was also a parade from the Hungarian point of view, because on May 8, 1982, the Budapest Defense Forces men’s team also won the European Champions Cup.
BEK Women’s Handball Final Match 2 May 9, 1982
Vasas-Radnicski Beograd (Yugoslavia) 29-19 (13-8)
Fáy Street, 2000 views. Directed by Heuchert, Norek (West Germans)
Vases: Őriné – Barna 1, Gódorné 7, Csíkné 3, Liskáné, Sterbinszky 8, Gombai 3. Replacement: Rácz M. (goalkeeper), Angyal 6, Briznay, Kuruczné 1.
Radnicski: Djukics – Gole, Vujcsics 1, Kitics 8, Jeremics 1, Pesics 5, Cudermann 2. Substitution: Radovics (goalkeeper), Milicevics 1, Tmusics 1.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the Budapest Honvéd team also returned home from Switzerland, so before the start, the BEK-winning men’s team marched with the cup in the hall of Fay Street. Even before the opening whistle, the Vasas leaders bid farewell to Sterbinszky, who was so moved by this that his first half game went entirely to this ceremony. Fortunately, the Yugoslavs could also have been in some special condition because they scored their first goal in the 15th minute. By then, Vasas was already leading 5-0, which means that he had resolved the disadvantage that he had accumulated in Belgrade in one hour.
Thereafter, he did not stop. A real game of joy came from this BEK final and they won this series for the first (and last) time in Vasas history. In the end, everyone was crying because they knew that with the departure of Amália Sterbinszky, fans would say goodbye to a team of miracles who, in this lineup, would never be able to enter the field again.
“I came from Ferencváros to Vasas ten years ago,” Amalia Sterbinszky said after the final. Since then we have won nine championships and nine MNK gold medals with the team. I played three times in the BEK final, now we managed to win for the first time. The key to our current BEK success was to knock out our former rival, Soviet Spartak Kiev, in the semi-finals. So finally we could really hope to win. The game went very well in the second half, but I was already sure of success before the final rematch because I thought we could win 6-7 goals. We also managed to overcome that. Now I am going to Denmark, I will also be a first class IF Helsingör player and coach, dealing with young Danish people. I say goodbye forever at the World Cup. I really hope I can lift another trophy in December. “
When Lajos Mocsai arrived at Vasas, experts guessed how long the young coach would spend on the bench. “It just came to our attention then. Or in the locker room, and the coach is likely to be a victim of it. Or he could be on the field. But the best teams in the world should be scared,” wrote Népsport. The revolution broke out in the field. Vasas really swept everyone away. Even after János Csík’s departure, Mocsai was not the number one candidate for the bank on Fáy Street.
“I confess that physical training has a very important role in this sport. As an example, I have before me the results of the competitors of the Soviet Union and the GDR. While the BEK matches were taking place, everyone was motivated by heart and soul in the exercises and matches. Later that enthusiasm subsided. “
What was Mocsai referring to?
Well, at the end of September 1982, the newspapers had written about something very big that was happening on Fáy Street. In NB I, Vasas was defeated first by the Constructors and then by the TFSE. Vasas, who lost a total of six league points between September 1964 and September 1982. I mean, it all happened in 18 years. Then came these two failures, completely unexpected, and the Hungarian sports world screamed fur. The clash against TFSE and the defeat of a particular goal raised suspicions, as Lajos Mocsai was also the master of TF at this time.
“Neither I nor my players missed that game,” said the young coach. Think about it, if that were true, I, as a teacher and coach, would no longer have credit. I also heard that Mrs. Gódorn shot the seven meters with her right hand in this match. Not true, shot to the left. He was by her side, but he could also be wrong. When we fought this match, we were champions again and there was no fighting fire in the players. “
On December 31, 1982, Népsport wrote that Lajos Mocsai had not extended his one-year contract and that János Csík returned to the small bank in Angyalföld.
The glory of the world passed quickly.
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